Sunday, June 1, 2014

Touring Kansas

Its just too easy to be complacent... About blogging..... That is when you aren't doing anything but living along in the normal fashion... But since I didn't write all week, I should at least catch you up...

It was a short week since Memorial day was on Monday, so Tuesday was the Motorcycle ride... It was kind of fun, as we went to We Be Smokin down at the muni airport at Paola, Kansas.... Its only about 20 miles down there but we went a round about way so it took about an hour to get there...

My friend Al was leading and we went North when we were headed South..... Yep that always makes it take longer....

Some of the Motorcycle folks are also pilots, and flew into the airport...

I'm the fellow in the yellow shirt with black suspenders back along the windows.. And Al is the fellow with his arm up in front of his face in the orange shirt.. He's right in front of me, but not at the same table... We often sit with other people at the meetings... But will stop at McDonalds on the way home and visit with each other...

This is Dan... he normally rides or drives, but when we are at an airport, he brings this little green number... Looks fun to me....

Then, since we hadn't gone far enough on Tuesday, we decided to ride with the Eastern Kansas gang that leaves Topeka on Wednesday...... They were going to Dover, Ks....

We had to get up and muster at a McDonalds on Shawnee Mission Parkway at 8 AM..... Booo.... But I made it... This ride went on the North side of the Kansas River from Bonner Springs all the way to Topeka... Dover was Southwest of Topeka out in the very rural countryside....

I was lost all the way... Especially driving thru Topeka.... We came in on the North side of town and wound around on the divided interstate highways... They were under construction and we sat in traffic for a long while... This isn't pleasant on a cycle as you have to hold up the heavy bike when your not moving... At one point I had the kick stand down...

After what seemed forever, we arrived at the Dover Odd Fellows lodge which is a restaurant on the first floor with the meeting lodge upstairs... We had ridden about 85 miles when we arrived...

They had a sandwich bar set up in the middle of the restaurant, but most of our table ordered hamburgers.... I do that when I'm not at all familiar with the food or the facility... Its hard to mess up a burger... LOL

We were way back behind one of those posts in the back corner... This place had old chrome kitchen tables from the 50s and of course none of them matched... Nor did the silverware... It was equally as old and each piece weighed about a ton... But the food was good and they had quite the crowd...

Their specialty was home made pie... As many of the ladies who worked there were along in years, they knew how to make spectacular deserts... The most senior lady that started the pie tradition, has now passed along, but her picture was on the wall with several examples of pies in front of her...

We ended up going back thru Topeka and past the capitol downtown... I couldn't take any pictures from the bike in the traffic... And I didn't dare let the others get away from me, since I had no idea where the highways were to get me back to the way out of town...

This is a stock picture from the internet.... Now I know were that department of Revenue envelope is being mailed at tax time..... Ugg.

Wednesday and Thursday it was mow the yards day for me, since my younger son is out of town... I went over and did his as well... He has taken care of mine too many times to mention, so I am well indebted and will never catch up in this regard....